stay the course
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[edit]stay the course (third-person singular simple present stays the course, present participle staying the course, simple past and past participle stayed the course)
- (idiomatic) To persist or continue, especially in the face of difficulties.
- Synonym: stay the distance
- If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights.
- 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 132:
- This sort of thing is meat and drink to the born Controller—and Controllers are born with the right imperturbable temperament for the job; hence the fact that they are recruited from many different grades of operating staff, and some recruits don't stay the course.
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[edit]- “stay the course”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “stay the course”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “stay the course” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
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